In Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (2005), researchers Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton argue that for…
Browsing: The Social Order
A quiet time in Rome, the end of February. A time of silence. This evening in a completely empty and…
Recently, the Obama administration declared that all employers, including Catholic institutions, will be required to offer free insurance coverage for…
In the Gospel reading for the First Sunday of Lent in the Ordinary Form of Holy Mass, Jesus proclaims, “The…
With the celebration of Black History Month we are reminded of the historic presidency of Barack Obama, the nation’s first…
Last week in his State of the Union address, President Obama claimed to share President Lincoln’s opinion “that government should…
The rise — at least temporarily — of Rick Santorum has given rise to speculation of late, most notably by David…
The Culture of Death reminds me of the dragon from the Book of Revelations; it is an “enormous red dragon…
“As Maine goes, so goes the nation.” On election day, November 2009, the Pine Tree State harkened back to its…